How Internet Service Providers are Going Green

Earth Day is here, and Fierce Network is celebrating by looking into how telcos are approaching their sustainability agendas. Fierce reached out to several internet service providers (ISPs) to ask how they're making their businesses more environmentally friendly. For companies Fierce didn't hear from, it took a look at their recent environmental, social and governance (ESG) reports to check their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Scope 1 emissions are a company's direct emissions from owned or controlled sources. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy. In the corporate ESG scene, "net zero" has become a buzzword added into many company's sustainability targets. Net zero emissions means there is equilibrium between the amount of emissions and extraction of greenhouse gases a company is responsible for. Some experts have warned that greenwashy words like "net zero" may not actually be enough, since the strategy still leaves room for immense greenhouse gas emissions. Nonetheless, there's still something to be said for forward progress. Here's what companies are doing to get there.